川黔大青 chuan qian da qing

Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Branchlets yellow-brown to purplish, subterete to nearly 4-angled, with elliptic lenticels, pubescent. Petioles 3-5.5 cm, densely pubescent; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 6-15 3.5-7 cm, papery, abaxially pubescent on veins and glandular, adaxially sparsely pubescent, base broadly cuneate to rounded or rarely truncate, margin entire or rarely several dentate, apex acuminate, veins 6 or 7 pairs. Inflorescences terminal, lax corymbose cymes; peduncle 2-3.5 cm, densely pubescent; bracts deciduous; bractlets linear, 5-8 mm. Calyx 1-1.5 cm, submembranous, deeply 5-lobed, puberulent, with several peltate glands; lobes triangular-lanceolate, as long as tube. Corolla pinkish, tube 1-2 mm; lobes spatulate, ca. 1 cm. Stamens and style exserted.

* Thickets; 1400-2000 m. Guizhou, Sichuan.